There is currently a bug in firefox 3 which causes it to crash with an XError BadAloc when you go to any page hosted on howtoforge.
This seems to be related to the image at http://howtoforge.com/themes/htf_glass/images/bg_header_bottom_left15.png. I suggest you don’t click on that link 🙂
Apparently this image is 10,000 pixels wide. It looks like this is probably a GTK issue since the same problem happended when I opened the image with evince!
I tried writing a greasemonkey script to get around this problem but it loads too late to avert the crash. So iptables to the rescue.
Bash
iptables
-I OUTPUT # Match packets levaing my laptop
-d howtoforge.com # Only packets going to howtoforge
-m string # Invoke the string matcher
--algo bm # Pick a matching algorithm
--to 70 # Only check the first 70 bytes of each packet
--string "GET /themes/htf_glass/images/bg_header_bottom_left15.png"
-j DROP # Drop the sucker
So you’ve confirmed that random other gnome apps have the same problem.
I’ve confirmed that my Firefox3b4 doesn’t have the same problem (running on OS X 10.5)
So.. Is it really a bug in firefox?
btw, I like the mooing..